Friday, September 21, 2012

In recent interview posted by CLiNT Greg Rucka exposed how he was treated in the "Big Two".

The dirty little secret is that those Image guys made all
these deals and almost to a man failed to deliver. They burnt Hollywood
horribly on letting comics talent actually be a part of the production
of the material they sold.
I’ve reached the end of my Work For Hire rope. I’m enjoying The
Punisher, but that’s not mine, it’s Marvel’s, and l knew that going in. I
have spent a lot of my comics career in service of other masters, – and
I’ve had enough of that for now. I’m sick to death of the way the Big
Two treat people.
I gave seven very good years to DC and they took gross advantage of
me. That’s partially my fault, but not entirely. At this point, I see no
reason why I should have to put up with that, I can sink or swim on my
own.
You are seeing a grotesque Hollywoodisation of the two main
companies. There was at least a period where I felt that the way they
wanted to make money was by telling the best story they could; now the
quality of the work matters less than that the book comes out. There is
far less a desire to see good work be done.
Dan DiDio has gone on record, and this is the same man that said
Gotham Central would never be cancelled as long as he was there, telling
people what a great book Gotham Central was, but it never made any
money.
Well, take a look at your trade sales! That book has made nothing but
money as a trade. What I’m now being told is, ”lt was never worth
anything to us anyway.”So, you know what? They can stop selling the
Batwoman: Elegy trade and stop selling the Wonder Woman trades and
everything else I’ve done, because clearly I’ve not done anything of
service and those guys aren’t making any money off me.
Right now, where the market is, I have no patience for it.
My run on Punisher ends on #16, and we are then doing a five-issue
mini called War Zone and then I’m done. That’s it! The Powers-That-Be at
Marvel, without talking to me, decreed that he’s going to join a team
on another book.
That’s their choice, they own him, but I don’t have to be happy about
it. I am glad I had the opportunity to work on the character and I’m
proud of the work I’ve done.
Despite what the publishers say, their interest in the talent is
minimal now, the interest is only in promoting the financial worth of
their properties. That was not the case as of two or three years ago,
when there was an ‘Exclusives war’, but that’s all gone by the wayside
now. Ultimately, they are saying, “We don’t need you,’ because they can
get a million more just like you.
For every person who passes on the opportunity to write Spider-Man
or Superman, I guarantee there are 5000 hungry writers who would give
their eye-teeth to do it. But just because they want to do it, it
doesn’t mean they are capable of doing it. It comes down entirely to
Warner Bros. realising what they owned but had not exploited. At the end
of the Harry Potter franchise, they went “Oh, crap, we need something
else fast’, looked over at Marvel’s very very successful film program.
DC are playing catch up with Marvel, because of things like The
Avengers breaking six hundred million domestic. That’s a lot of money, I
don’t begrudge Warner Bros wanting to make bank it would be like
blaming a shark for eating, but l do think that the pursuit of that
financial windfall bears a detrimental effect on the creative and
artistic side.

This explains a lot about the end of the Punisher book. Its not need a rocket scientist to know that Marvel cancelled his run to integrate the Punisher in a team book to increase the sales, they don't care about the fans who follow this character for years, they would do anything for profit ignoring the origins of the character that is "NOT" a teamplayer.

Thank you Greg Rucka for everything and i wish you all the luck in your carreer. Give us the best "War-Zone" you can.

Thursday, September 20, 2012

Hi Punisher Fans!! Well in this month we got the conclusion about Space Punisher and Untold Tales of Punisher Max. And we are enter into the War-Zone, i'm sure it will be the hardest battle that Frank will ever face in his entire career till now. Let's finger crossed that Frank will overcome this battle against Avengers!

SKOTTIE YOUNG (W) • TBD (A)Cover by MIKE DEL MUNDO•
The Punisher learns the hard way that vigilanteism only breeds more
vigilantes when the ten-year-old son of one of his victims decides to
take revenge on the man who killed his father.

In Stores: ???

*Due to the lack of information about the release dates i will update when i find new info. In this month they will release Punisher: War-Zone 01 (of 05) but there isn't any info of the release date and the cover of that issue.